The role of cost accounting as it relates to financial and managerial accounting?

Cost accounting is one of the important elements of accounting information about the problems of internal managerial control. Financial accounts are unable to meet information needs about the cost structure of a product. The need for cost determination and controls necessitated new set of principles of accounting and thus emerged ‘Cost accounting’ as a specialized branch of accounting. Cost accounting is the process of accounting for costs. It includes the accounting procedures relating to recording of all income and expenditure and preparation of periodical statements and report with the object of ascertaining and controlling costs. Such cost accounting is a good technique for ascertaining profitability and for decision making